SIPEF

Board/Management Information • May 7, 2025

Curriculum Vitae

YU-LENG KHOR

(° 1971, Malaysian)

Independent non-executive director (since 2021)

Yu-Leng Khor has a Master of Science in economics from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Politics and Economics from Oxford University. Yu-Leng started her career in the financial industry in Malaysia with a pioneering online broker-banker and stints with Citigroup and other financial institutions in Singapore. Since 2003, she has worked as an international economic consultant and specialist on Southeast Asia, as lead on actionable reports for dozens of Fortune 500 companies, Asian corporations, Government agencies (including the EU Commission), NGOs, including the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil and family offices. She specialises in agribusiness (palm oil, rubber, sugar and more), infrastructure, trade and China-Asian economics. From 2014 until 2017, Yu-Leng worked extensively on the economics of commodity supply-chains, sustainability and smallholders, as the research head for Southeast Asia at LMC International Ltd. In addition to her ongoing work as a market and ESG trade analyst, she is an Associate Director and Senior Fellow (sustainability) at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs, research associate of the Institute of China studies at the University of Malaya, and council member of the Malaysian Oil Scientists and Technologists Association. From 2018 until 2023, she was an independent nonexecutive director of Rohas Tecnic Berhad, active in regional EPC and fabrication for power transmission, telecommunications, and water infrastructure. Since 2022, she is an independent director of Rimba Collective Pte Ltd, a Southeast Asia forest conservation and restoration fund. She is also Chair of the Malaysia Palm Oil Board's PAC Sustainable Development Sub-Committee for the 2024-2026 term. She is a director of SIPEF as from 9 June 2021.